Famous People with Name Hermann

Hermann Joseph            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Hermann Joseph: Nobel Prize-winning American geneticist and educator, best known for his work on the physiological and genetic effects of radiation (X-ray mutagenesis) as well as his outspoken political beliefs.

Hermann Minkowski            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Hermann Minkowski: was a Lithuanian-born German mathematician, of Jewish descent, who created and developed the geometry of numbers and who used geometrical methods to solve difficult problems in number theory, mathematical physics, and the theory of relativity.

Hermann Buhl            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Hermann Buhl: is considered one of the best post-World War II Austrian climbers and one of the best climbers of all time. He was particularly innovative in applying alpine style to Himalayan climbing. His accomplishments include:Buhl is the only mountaineer to have made the first ascent of an eight-thousander solo. Just a few weeks after the successful first ascent of Broad Peak (with Fritz Wintersteller and Marcus Schmuck), Buhl and Kurt Diemberger made an attempt on nearby, unclimbed Chogolisa peak (7654 m) in alpine style. Buhl died when he fell through a cornice on the southeast ridge near the summit of Chogolisa. His body was never found.

Hermann Gmeiner            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Hermann Gmeiner: was an Austrian philanthropist and the founder of SOS Children's Villages.Having experienced the horrors of war himself as a soldier in Russia, he was then confronted with the isolation and suffering of the many war orphans and homeless children as a child welfare worker after the end of the Second World War. In his conviction that help can never be effective as long as the children have to grow up without a home of their own, he set about implementing his idea for SOS Children's Villages.

Hermann Prey            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Hermann Prey: was a German baritone. He is renowned as the foremost Figaro of the third quarter of the 20th century.Hermann Prey was born in Berlin and grew up in Nazi Germany. He was scheduled to be drafted when World War II ended. He studied voice at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin and won the prize of the Frankfurt contest of the Hessischer Rundfunk in 1952.

Grete Hermann            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Grete Hermann: was a German mathematician and philosopher. She studied mathematics at Göttingen under Emmy Noether, where she achieved her Ph.D. in 1926. Her doctoral thesis, Die Frage der endlich vielen Schritte in der Theorie der Polynomideale, published in Mathematis

Kai Hermann            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Kai Hermann: is a German journalist born in 1938,[1] who contributed to the magazines Die Zeit, Der Spiegel, Twen, and Stern, and published multiple works including "La révolte des étudiants" and "Intervention décisive à Mogadiscio". He is also co-author of Moi, Chris

Alexander Hermann            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Alexander Hermann: was an officer in the armies of various German states, a Prussian Generalfeldmarschall and a member of the Cabinet of Three Counts with August David zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein and Johann Kasimir Kolbe von Wartenberg - due to their heavy taxation, this was also known as the "three great W(oes)" of Prussia (Wartenberg, Wartensleben, Wittgenstein).

Karl Samuel Leberecht Hermann            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Karl Samuel Leberecht Hermann: was a German chemist who independently discovered cadmium in 1817. Cadmium was discovered in 1817 by a physician, Friedrich Stromeyer (1776–1835). The element was first found in the condensation of vapors (mixed with soot and zinc oxide) that rose out of a furnace in which zinc oxide was being roasted. Cadmium’s discovery is also loosely attributed to K.S.L. Hermann and J.C.H. Roloff who may have found cadmium in zinc oxide during the same year

Karl Friedrich Hermann            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Karl Friedrich Hermann: was a German classical scholar and antiquary. Having studied philosophy at the universities of Heidelberg and Leipzig (and taking a degree in 1826), he went on a tour of Italy, on his return from which he lectured as Privatdozent in Heidelberg. In 1832, he was appointed to the chair of philosophy at University of Marburg, and in 1833 received the additional offices of second librarian to the university, and director of the philological seminary.